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VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT: GLORIA EVANGELINA ANZALDUAadmin2022-04-11T15:39:53-04:00

THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa

September 26, 1942 – May 15, 2004

“I will have my voice. Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent’s tongue — my woman’s voice, my sexual voice, my poet’s voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence.” — Gloria E. Anzaldúa

One of the first openly lesbian Chicana writers, Anzaldúa played a major role in redefining Chicanx, queer, feminist and female identities; and in developing inclusionary movements for social justice. Her theories of mestizaje, the borderlands and the new mestiza, as well as her code-switching, have had an impact far beyond the field of Chicanx studies. Her insistence on community and coalition-building united feminist concerns with issues of race, gender, class, sexuality, health and spirituality. Anzaldúa also played a formative role in the development of Queer Theory.

More About Gloria:

  • Excerpts from Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
  • “Feminist Architectures of Gloria Anzaldúa,” Keynote speaker Maria Lugones from Binghamton University giving the keynote address to the second day of the Feminist Architectures Conference at UCSC, April 11, 2015
  • Gloria Anzaldua lecture, Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Oregon State University Libraries, April 24, 2003
  • Anzaldúa, Gloria and Hernández, Ellie (1996), “Re-Thinking Margins and Borders: An Interview,” Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture: Vol. 18, No. 1, Article 2
  • Blake, D. & Ábrego, C. (1995), “An Interview with Gloria Anzaldúa,” Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies Vol. 14, No. 1, pp.12-22
  • “An Interview with Gloria Anzaldúa,” University of Arizona Poetry Center Newsletter, Vol. 16, No.1, November 1991
  • Gloria Anzaldúa Papers
    • Benson Latin American Collection, The University of Texas at Austin
  • Writings on Amazon
  • Cited in Barbara Love’s book, Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975, pages 16 – 17
  • Wikipedia page

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